From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org>
Cc: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>,
Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com>,
Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>,
Hiroshi Doyu <hdoyu@nvidia.com>,
Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com>,
Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth@gmail.com>,
"devicetree@vger.kernel.org" <devicetree@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC 2/4] driver core: Allow early registration of devices
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 15:35:23 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130816223523.GA31247@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACxGe6uhiKY7a0+aViEamwKbE2tJicVc8CMZChBUaf+KYTs5rw@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 11:20:55PM +0100, Grant Likely wrote:
> Also, for the devices that are created early, is it really appropriate
> to use APIs that require a struct device? I could easily argue that
> anything done at early boot should only be the bare minimum to allow
> the kernel to get to initcalls, and so mucking about with devices is
> inappropriate because it really messes with the assumptions made in
> the design of the driver model.
I agree, this could get really messy, really fast, and be a place that
people abuse quite easily.
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-17 0:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-16 20:39 [RFC 0/4] Early device registration Thierry Reding
2013-08-16 20:39 ` [RFC 1/4] driver core: Register SoC bus after platform bus Thierry Reding
2013-08-16 20:39 ` [RFC 2/4] driver core: Allow early registration of devices Thierry Reding
2013-08-16 21:06 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-08-16 21:55 ` Thierry Reding
2013-08-16 22:08 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-08-17 11:17 ` Thierry Reding
2013-08-19 19:43 ` Stephen Warren
2013-08-19 20:10 ` Thierry Reding
2013-08-19 20:53 ` Stephen Warren
2013-08-19 21:41 ` Thierry Reding
2013-08-16 22:20 ` Grant Likely
2013-08-16 22:35 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2013-08-17 10:26 ` Tomasz Figa
2013-08-19 19:49 ` Stephen Warren
2013-08-19 20:04 ` Thierry Reding
2013-08-17 11:07 ` Thierry Reding
2013-08-16 20:39 ` [RFC 3/4] ARM: tegra: Call of_platform_populate() early Thierry Reding
2013-08-16 20:39 ` [RFC 4/4] OF: Add device pointer to struct device_node Thierry Reding
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